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Bunnyman		#41	[-]
Apr 6 12 9:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thought I'd mention some lighter fare. The legendary Wizard of Speed & Time by Mike Jittlov a one man effects team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE All pre digital of course. Daicon IV made by fans for the opening of a Japanese Sci-Fi convention in 1982, all cel animation, it opens with a small excert from Daicon III, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDBIwRe2AE And the more recent United Monster Talent Agency which is a must see for classic horror sci-fi fans http://www.traileraddict....talent-agency/short-film
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Dr Acula		#42	[-]
Apr 25 12 3:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts
Robert Laughlin		#43	[-]
Apr 25 12 4:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Because no one has mentioned it, let me recommend SKYWHALES, an animated short that's required viewing for sf fans.
Dr Acula		#44	[-]
May 24 12 8:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Robert Laughlin wrote: Because no one has mentioned it, let me recommend SKYWHALES, an animated short that's required viewing for sf fans.
hermanthegerm		#45	[-]
May 24 12 8:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Shadow Of The Thin Man DVD had an interesting version of The Tell-Tale Heart (1941) "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING
Dr Acula		#46	[-]
Aug 13 12 4:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My God, what's Bond doing?... I think he's attempting re-entry, sir. http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/ Cole's Comics: All About Jack Cole http://colescomics.blogspot.com/
Red Gargon		#47	[-]
Aug 13 12 8:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Love it Dr. Ac! Great narration by Carradine and oh, that art - so typical of the nostalgia-loaded but really ugly early '70s stuff I grew up on. Thanks for posting, really enjoyed that one.
Tim Smyth		#48	[-]
Aug 14 12 2:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dr Acula wrote: Many years ago local libraries had 16mm film collections. I found this film at the Grandview Library in Columbus, Ohio. I loved this short film and transfered it to video. I always wondered who made it. Well recently, I finally put it all together. This film was made by Mark Sullivan while I believe he was still attending Columbus College of Art and Design. Mark went on to become one of the best matte painters in Hollywood. I recently emailed Mark and told him that others need to see this film. He gave me permission to post this on You Tube. Now we're talkin' my language, Highrise is wonderful. A few more to look out for "Closed Mondays", by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner "Mountain Music" by just Vinton I guess, both are cool clay animated films, in fact the second is actually Claymation, just without the name attached. "The Electric Disko Chicken" by Bob Goodness, a very very funny film, although good luck tracking this one down. "The Good The Bad, and the Furry", a Cinemagic Short Film Search winner, again good luck. "The Peanut Vender" by Len Lye is weird and should be seen as well, although it is a little creepy, it is on DVD and here as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYZPwEdPoo "Asteroid", another Cinemagic short film search winner, could be better, but heck it's a Super 8 movie, it is the longest movie on my list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPaPe3aJEPI A few that I would love to see that I read about in Cinemagic are "Shortcut" "The Evils of Alcohol", by Craig Reardon. Tim
BijouBob8mm		#49	[-]
Oct 3 12 8:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Never saw that version of SLEEPY HOLLOW before, Doc. I do recall the animated TV special from a few years earlier, 1970's TALES OF WASHINGTON IRVING, which gave us both "Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." It usually turned up on TV between Halloween and Thanksgiving during the Seventies. I used to work in the 16mm film department of the city library, and we had a lot of unique and obscure short subjects, with a lot of titles from Weston Woods, the National Film Board of Canada, Disney, etc. (Had an incredible looking print of the Silly Symphony's THE OLD MILL and a rather well-used copy of Will Vinton's Claymation short DINOSAUR.) When the transition to video was made, nearly all those 16mm films were sold off for a couple of bucks each. (Needless to say, more than a few of those became a part of my own collection.)
Dr Acula		#50	[-]
Oct 3 12 10:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My God, what's Bond doing?... I think he's attempting re-entry, sir. http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/ Cole's Comics: All About Jack Cole http://colescomics.blogspot.com/
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Dr Acula		#51	[-]
Oct 3 12 10:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A copy of The Good, The Bad, and the Furry that doesn't allow embeds - looks cool, tho: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9Z7kVz5SE 1980 send up of spaghetti westerns shot location in the infamous ghost town of Bodie, CA. this film was pain-stakenly made over the course of a year by Dean Barnes and Greg Gilger, and created a huge sensation on start-up cable companies like HBO, Showtime, ON-TV and Select-TV (remember them?). GBF was also an Award Winner at CineMagic, Filmex and other Festivals. Yes, it's 8 whole minutes, but we hand-made this classic when films were films and sheep were nervous. My God, what's Bond doing?... I think he's attempting re-entry, sir. http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/ Cole's Comics: All About Jack Cole http://colescomics.blogspot.com/
BijouBob8mm		#52	[-]
Oct 4 12 9:51 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remember CLOSED MONDAYS being part of the 1977 compilation feature THE FANTASTIC ANIMATION FESTIVAL. It would probably be a legal nightmare to negotiate the rights, but I would love for the complete theatrical cut of the film to come to DVD.
Saturday8pm		#53	[-]
Oct 4 12 10:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?"
bipolarber		#54	[-]
Oct 8 12 10:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There was also a short film, considered to be the last of the Pal Puppetoons, which originally aired as part of a Saturday morning TV show "The Curiosity Shop"... Called "The Toolbox" it's about a group of tools that must fend off an attack by a dragon-like blowtorch... and they are ultimately saved by a humble carpet tack who punctures the beast's fuel tank... "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
Dr Acula		#55	[-]
Oct 25 12 8:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My God, what's Bond doing?... I think he's attempting re-entry, sir. http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/ Cole's Comics: All About Jack Cole http://colescomics.blogspot.com/
Doctor 1313		#56	[-]
Oct 31 12 12:08 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've recently seen some cool horror shorts. BUG CHASER. A gay man discovers an odd lump on his body that becomes very painful as it gets bigger. His health begins to fail as the lump grows but he doesn't have insurance nor can he afford to see a doctor. Finally, he can't take it anymore, grabs a knife and-- Well, if you're teeth aren't grinding together by then, they will be by the end. EDWARD. A young man tells his therapist about a bad dream he had where he murders a local girl who was really killed the night before. Hal believes that he didn't really commit the crime, but another entity linked to him named Edward, did. Tension mounts as the therapist tries to get Hal to admit that Edward doesn't exist, but then-- Really moody short with references to Russian atrocities. CANDY. Okay, I admit it. I directed this one which has played several film festivals. A candy-loving gay man trolls the 976 phone sex lines looking for a partner. He connects with a college student who is uncertain about coming over...and with good reason. Darkly funny, sexy and disturbing, or as the QFest director referred to it on their website "Shocking and quite mean!" Right now, outside of various film fests, I don't believe there is a place you can see the above shorts, but if you go to YouTube and search on the name "Drew Daywalt", you will find a list of several really short shorts, some only 2-3 minutes long, that are excellent examples of how to incur dread with the simplest of set-ups. Check them out. DOCTOR 13
hermanthegerm	Spike & Mike's 30th Anniversary Festival of Animation Extravaganza	#57	[-]
Feb 10 13 9:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	We started of with a very strange live performance of Come Together, then Aiko Aiko performed with a tuba and electric violin. ...At least as far as I can tell that was what it sounded like. ...Hard to tell. Then we started with the actual show. While most of the short films have a fantastic element Paths of Hate is not only a rousing dogfight adventure it is also a true horror film. The WWII sequence in Heavy Metal got nothin' on this one. Other featured films: Pixels - A loving elegy to early video games Bunny The Seed - The story of an apple seed. Creature Comforts Guard Dog Loom - Very poetic death of a moth. Paths of Hate -A great war horror story. The Saga of Biorn - Cool Samurai Jack style joke movie, even if you can see the punchline coming. Bambi Meets Godzilla Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase Oktapodi - Finding Nemo style cephalopod tale. Animation Vs. Animator II - Computer graphics and in-jokes. Logorama (bonus!) - Don't be turned off by the commercial distractions - this ends up being quite a story. The Deep - Cool PES animation. The Big Snit Grashoppers For the Birds During the intermission Davind Silverman (The Simpsons) came out for a Q&A session. Signed autographs and took photos with the audience. "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING Last Edited By: hermanthegerm Feb 10 13 10:20 AM. Edited 3 times.
hermanthegerm	CLOSED MONDAYS	#58	[-]
Feb 10 13 10:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BijouBob8mm wrote: I remember CLOSED MONDAYS being part of the 1977 compilation feature THE FANTASTIC ANIMATION FESTIVAL. It would probably be a legal nightmare to negotiate the rights, but I would love for the complete theatrical cut of the film to come to DVD. Closed Mondays is included in a DVD, unfortunately it is one of those Cascadia/Eastwest Video ones which basically rips off one of the Spike and Mike tapes as far as I know, they may have purchased the rights - but I am doubtful. These are the three collections: Animation Classics Great Animation Vol. 2 Great Animation Vol. 3 "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING Last Edited By: hermanthegerm Feb 10 13 10:37 AM. Edited 4 times.
Monsterpal		#59	[-]
Feb 10 13 8:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jules Dassin's 1941 "The Tell-Tale Heart," with Joseph Schildkraut and Roman Bohnen is a favorite. I was astonished to learn that Bohnen, who plays the old man, was still in his thirties when this was released.
Wich2		#60	[-]
Feb 10 13 9:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	(Rather like unto Henry Kleinbach/Brandon's turn as Barnaby...) It is a good film, MP. Except for one early performance, I've liked everything I've seen by Schildkraut.
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